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Breaking and making the ancestors
Piecing together the urnfield mortuary process in the Lower-Rhine-Basin, ca. 1300 - 400 BC
Paperback || Arjan Louwen || Sidestone Press Dissertations
Towards the capstone of the European Bronze Age, in an area stretching from the Carpathians in the East to the North Sea in the West, vast cremation grave cemeteries occur that are perhaps better known as ‘urnfields.’ Today some 700 of these burial sites have come to light in the Netherlands alone.
In this corner of Europe, also known as the ‘Lower-Rhine-Basin,’ these cemeteries are often characterised by vast collections of small burial mounds under which the cremated remains of dec...
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A completely normal practice
The emergence of selective metalwork deposition in Denmark, north-west Germany, and the Netherlands between 2350-1500 BC
Paperback || Marieke Visser || Sidestone Press Dissertations
In Bronze Age Europe, an enormous amount of metalwork was buried in the ground and never retrieved. Patterns in the archaeological finds show that this was a deliberate practice: people systematically deposited valuable metal objects in specific places in the landscape, even in non-metalliferous regions. Although this practice seems strange and puzzling from our modern perspective, these patterns demonstrate that it was not simply a matter of irrational human behaviour. Instead, there were su...
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De Romeinse heerbaan
De oudste weg door de Lage Landen
Paperback || Robert Nouwen || Sterck & De Vreese || met inkijkexemplaar
Van west naar oost, dwars door Vlaanderen, liep vroeger de Romeinse heerbaan van Kassel naar Tongeren. Hij verbond de kuststad Boulogne-sur-Mer met de Rijnstad Keulen en maakte deel uit van een groot en complex netwerk van (water)wegen dat Rome verbond met de verste uithoeken van het Romeinse Rijk. Men spreekt in dat verband trouwens terecht van militaire wegen, De Romeinen slaagden erin om uiteindelijk een voor die tijd schitterend wegennet te realiseren van nagenoeg 120.000 kilometer.
Hoe w...
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Resurfacing the submerged past
Prehistoric archaeology and landscapes of the Flevoland Polders, the Netherlands
2021 || Paperback || J.H.M. Peeters e.a. || Sidestone Press
The Netherlands are internationally renowned for the archaeology of its wetland environments. The reclamation of the Flevoland Polders in the early half of the 20th century not only exposed hundreds of shipwrecks, but also remnants of prehistoric landscapes and traces of human occupation dating to Mesolithic and Neolithic times. Ultimately, this led to the ‘discovery’ of the Swifterbant Culture in the 1960s-1970s, and which was initially seen as a Dutch equivalent of the Ertebølle Culture.
Archaeological investigations conducted by the University of Groningen, and later also the University of Amsterdam, delivered important new data on the nature of the Swifterbant Culture. It became key in the discussion about the adoption of crop cultivation and animal husbandry by hunter-gatherers living in wetland environments. Also, the Swifterbant Culture became central in the debate on the meaning of archaeologically defined ‘cultures’, questioning relationships between social interaction and material culture. With the increase of urbanisation and infrastructural works, alongside changes in the Dutch Monuments Act, dozens of small and large-scale development-led investigations got initiated at the turn of the centur...
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Tussen wetenschap en wandelgangen
Vijftig jaar Nederlandse archeologie in de context van de Reuvensdagen
2021 || Paperback || Evert van Ginkel e.a. || Sidestone Press
Tussen wetenschap en wandelgangen beschrijft de ontwikkelingen in de Nederlandse archeologie in de afgelopen vijftig jaar (1971-2020) tegen de achtergrond van het sinds 1971 jaarlijks gehouden congres: de Reuvensdagen.
Het is een halve eeuw met ingrijpende veranderingen in het bestel in Nederland, de bescherming en het onderzoek van archeologische vindplaatsen, de omvang van de beroepsgroep en de aard van de instellingen die het archeologische werk uitvoeren. Zijn de jaren zeventig nog te bes...
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Under the Mediterranean I
Studies in Maritime Archaeology
2021 || Paperback || Stella Demesticha e.a. || Sidestone Press Academics
This volume is a collection of 19 articles in three sections reporting on recent research on the archaeology of shipwrecks, harbours, and maritime landscapes in the Mediterranean region. The shipwrecks section looks at excavated vessels from Mazotos, Modi Island, the port of Rhodes, Naples, and Narbonne, as well as a sailing reconstruction of the Ma‘agan Mikhael ship.
The harbours section includes articles on areas from the Levant to Seville looking at a variety of harbour defence systems a...
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God on Earth: Emperor Domitian
The re-invention of Rome at the end of the 1st century AD
2021 || Paperback || Aurora Raimondi Cominesi e.a. || Sidestone Press
In life, the emperor Domitian (81-96 CE) marketed himself as a god; after his assassination he was condemned to be forgotten. Nonetheless he oversaw a literary, cultural, and monumental revival on a scale not witnessed since Rome’s first emperor, Augustus.
In tandem with an exhibition in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden and the Mercati Traianei in Rome, planned for 2021-2022, this volume offers a fresh perspective on Domitian and his reign. This collection of papers, produced by a gr...
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Graven onder de Haagsche toren
Opgravingen van het kerkhof rond de Grote Kerk
2021 || Paperback || Evert van Ginkel e.a. || Nieuwe Haagsche B.V., Uitgeverij De || met inkijkexemplaar
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Egyptian Delta archaeology
Short studies in honour of Willem van Haarlem
Paperback || Ben van den Bercken || Sidestone Press
If you want to understand ancient Egypt, the Nile Delta is of key importance. Excavations and surveys in the Delta keep unearthing new information about how the ancient Egyptians lived, how they envisaged the afterlife and how they interacted with other cultures. The study of finds from the Delta gives us a glimpse into the beliefs and everyday life of the ancient Egyptians.
From 1979 to 2014 Willem van Haarlem worked on several archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, focusing on the excavati...
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Gender stereotypes in archaeology
A short reflection in image and text
2021 || Paperback || Laura Coltofean-Arizancu e.a. || Sidestone Press
Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother goddesses? And do women and men have equal career chances in archaeology? To put it short, no. However, these are some of the gender stereotypes that we still encounter on a daily basis in archaeology from the way archaeologists interpret the past and present it to the general public to how they prac...